Active Backup for Business 2.0.3-0472
(2018-11-13)

Fixed Issues
1. Fixed an issue where backup task hanging might occur.
2. Fixed an issue where upgrading Active Backup for Server to Active Backup for Business might fail.

Endpoint
1. Fixed an issue where zeroed blocks, under certain rare conditions, might not be applied when the network connection of a backup task is suspended and resumed.
2. Fixed an issue where the number of concurrent task, under certain rare conditions, might be incorrect when network connection is suspended and resumed.

Release Notes

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Active Backup for Business 2.0.4-0621 (2019-03-05)

What's New
1. Added support for backing up virtual machine running VMware vSphere (vCenter and ESXi) 6.7 version.
2. Added support for relinking copies of data and task settings of Active Backup for Business which were backed up by Synology backup solutions.
3. Enhanced the performance of global deduplication.
4. Added support for storage cleaning settings.
5. Added support for offline package activation process.
6. Supported restoring various network adapters and datastore of virtual machines.
7. Supported data transfer encryption for backing up virtual machines.
8. Greatly enhanced rsync backup performance of file servers.
9. Enhanced backup stability of virtual machines.

Fixed Issues (General Issues)
1. Fixed an issue where the shared folder containing the data of Active Backup for Business might not be moved to another volume.
2. Fixed an issue where grid settings might be lost after the package was reopened.
3. Fixed an issue where downloading multiple files at the same time through Active Backup for Business Portal might fail.

Fixed Issues (Servers and Workstations)
1. Fixed an issue where deleting backup versions might fail.
2. Fixed an issue where the failed backup task might be displayed incorrectly as successful.

Fixed Issues (Virtual Machines)
1. Fixed an issue where backing up or restoring a large amount of virtual machines might fail.
2. Fixed an issue where backing up virtual machines with "[" in their names might fail.
3. Fixed an issue where backing up virtual machines with non ASCII character in their network names might fail.
4. Fixed an issue where restoring virtual machines deployed on vSAN datastore might fail.
5. Fixed an issue where backing up or restoring a virtual machine might fail since the system was not able to identify its vSphere license correctly.

Release Notes

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Active Backup for Business 2.1.0-0985 (2019-10-02)

Deprecations
1. Removed support for customized storage clean up settings Compatibility and Installation
2. Active Backup for Business 2.1.0 must be installed on Synology products running DSM 6.2 and above.

What’s New
1. Added support for customizing denied and allowed backup time with backup window settings
2. Added support for configuring the execution time of the retention policy
3. Added support for keeping the minimum number of restore points
4. Added support for backing up virtual machines running Microsoft Hyper-V 2016 and 2019
5. Added support for restoring VMware vSphere virtual machine with distributed switch or with NVME controller disk
6. Added support for PC backup triggered by events, such as PC screen locked, starting up, and user signing out
7. Added support for inserting the argument (NAS IP address, username, password, and Active Backup for Business icon creation) to the .msi installer for mass deployment of Active Backup for Business agent
8. Added support for volume-based restoration for PCs and physical servers
9. Added support for offline agent update via the command line
10. Added support for backing up external hard drives for PCs and physical servers
11. Added support for backing up physical servers running Windows Server 2019
12. Added support for block-level deduplication for SMB file server backup
13. Added support for performing multiple SMB file server backup tasks concurrently

Fixed Issues (General Issues)
1. Fixed an issue where the backup task might be suspended when the log file was too large
2. Fixed an issue where the report schedule might not be effective after the schedule setting was configured again
3. Fixed an issue where backup might fail when the system memory was reduced to a smaller size
4. Fixed an issue where Instant Restore to Synology Virtual Machine Manager or backup verification might fail when the backed up device contained more than two disks
5. Fixed an issue where Btrfs share folders without Active Backup for Business data could not be moved to an ext4 volume

Fixed Issues (Servers and Workstations)
1. Fixed an issue where users without administrative permission could not change the restored path when restoring file/folder
2. Fixed an issue where the additional disk which did not contain system volume might be backed up when selecting system volume backup mode
3. Fixed an issue where restored files could not be edited after restoring files under home directory

Fixed Issues (Virtual Machines)
1. Fixed an issue where VMware backup task might fail when the datacenter contains the "&" character
2. Fixed an issue where VMware backup task might fail when the backed up virtual machine did not have network adapter or connection
3. Fixed an issue where VMware backup task might fail when it was configured with only pre-script or post-script
4. Fixed an issue where virtual machine performance might be slow when there were too many snapshots on the source virtual machine
5. Fixed an issue where the data transfer compression might not be supported on VMware vSphere 5.5/6.0

Fixed Issues (File Server)
1. Fixed an issue where the VSS-enabled backup task might fail when the name of source share folder contained the "$" character at the end
2. Fixed an issue where the status of rsync file server backup task might be partial success when the source folder was empty
3. Fixed an issue where Active Backup for Server might fail to be upgraded to Active Backup for Business when the name of backed up data contained drive letter format

Limitation and Known Issues
1. Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines with 5.0 configuration or previous versions are not supported

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Active Backup for Business 2.1.0-0993
(2019-10-24)

Important Note

Due to issues reported in Active Backup for Business 2.1.0-0985, version 2.1.0-0993 is released to fix the below issues.
1. Fixed an issue where PC backup tasks might not be triggered by starting up when the device had enabled Fast Startup.
2. Fixed an issue where an unknown error will be displayed when adding an unsupported Microsoft Hyper-V server.
3. Fix an issue where backing up a powered-on VMware vSphere virtual machine without CBT snapshots might fail.

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Active Backup for Business 2.1.1-1124 (2020-03-03)

What's New
1. Added support for inserting the argument to the Windows registry to avoid the UUID conflict issue.
2. Enhanced the performance of snapshots and replications when the replicated devices are running on or restoring to Synology Virtual Machine Manager.

Fixed Issues (General Issues)
1. Fixed the issue where Backup Calendar in the Overview page might not display properly after the system time reverted to standard time from daylight saving time.

Fixed Issues (Servers and Workstations)
1. Fixed the issue where the backup of a connected device might fail after the renaming of the DSM account already signed in on Synology Active Backup for Business Agent.
2. Fixed the issue where Synology NAS might not hibernate if there are connected physical servers or PCs.
3. Fixed the issue where the status of connected physical servers and PCs might display incorrectly as offline.

Fixed Issues (Virtual Machines)
1. Fixed the issue where Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine backup and restoration might fail if the password of the hypervisor contained a comma.
2. Fixed the issue where Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine backup and restoration might fail if the account of the hypervisor contained a space.
3. Fixed the issue where Microsoft Hyper-V machine backup might fail if there were multiple active network interface cards on Synology NAS.
4. Fixed the issue where the restoration might fail if the network interface card of a virtual machine lacked network attributes.
5. Fixed the issue where restoring VMware vSphere virtual machine with external devices might fail.
6. Fixed the issue where storage space might not be released after backed up data was deleted.
7. Fixed the issue where other backup jobs might be postponed if the system triggered the retention policy while running a backup task.

Fixed Issues (File Server)
1. Fixed the issue where the servers using different ports on the same IP address might not be added properly.

Limitation and Known Issues
1. ext3 file system is not supported to be the backup destination.

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Active Backup for Business 2.2.0-1761 (Beta)

https://www.synology.com/ru-ru/beta/2020_ABB_2_2_0_Beta_DSM6

What's new
1. Supports backing up and restoring Linux physical servers of the following distributions:
• CentOS: 6.10, 7.8, 8.1
• RHEL: 6.10, 7.8, 8.1
• Ubuntu: 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
• Fedora: 30, 31, 32
• Debian: 8.0 to 10
2. Added support for VMware vSphere 7.0.0
3. Added support for compression and encryption settings for personal computers, physical servers, and virtual machines at the backup destination.
4. Supports migrating instantly restored virtual machines on Virtual Machine Manager to VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V.
5. Users can now back up a maximum of 50 devices (personal computers, physical servers, and virtual machines) concurrently. The actual number varies by RAM capacity:
• Less than 8 GB: 10
• Between 8 GB and 32 GB: 30
• More than 32 GB: 50
6. Supports customizing pre/post scripts for physical server backups.
7. Supports removing data when the storage is deleted.
8. Added support for backup reports in PDF format to be attached in emails.
9. Supports deleting reports.
10. Supports automatically checking if the required services on VMware vSphere/Microsoft Hyper-V are properly configured when adding a hypervisor or creating a backup task.
11. Supports skipping duplicated pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys, and swapfiles.sys files when backing up personal computers and physical servers.
12. Scheduled backup tasks for physical servers/personal computers will be canceled when the devices are disconnected for over an hour after tasks start.
13. Displays tasks that have been restored within the last 48 hours in "Restore Status."
14. Added support for restoring a file's metadata along with the file restoration from Active Backup for Business Portal.

Fixed Issues (General Issue)
1. Fixed an issue where the schedule of reports might not be editable.
2. Fixed an issue where manually creating a folder in the "@ActiveBackup" folder might cause the backup data within the manually created folder inaccessible.
3. Fixed an issue where "Backup now" might fail when the backup task was created during the forbidden backup time of the backup window.
4. Fixed an issue where the system might not properly display the finish time of backup tasks on the Activities page and the Task List tab

Fixed Issues (Servers and Workstations)
1. Fixed an issue where the system might incorrectly identify multiple devices with the same UUID when performing entire device restoration.

Fixed Issues (Virtual Machines)
1. Fixed an issue where Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine backup tasks might fail if the size of the virtual machine disk was not an integer multiple of 1 KB.
2. Fixed an issue where Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine backup tasks might fail when it was connected to Synology NAS via its hostname.
3. Fixed an issue where Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine restoration might fail if the virtual machine used Cluster Shared Volumes.
4. Fixed an issue where Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine restoration might fail when its Windows guest OS time format was 24-hours.
5. Fix an issue where the restoration performance might be slow when there were too many files in the destination folder.
6. Fixed an issue where the restoration might fail if the virtual machine contained a physical disk or a Raw Device Mapping (RDM).
7. Fixed an issue where instantly restored virtual machines might not display in the Restore Status page if Active Backup for Business had been restarted.
8. Fixed an issue where the system might not able to perform a backup task and a retention policy at the same time.

Limitations
1. Backup tasks that have enabled compression or encryption at backup destinations can't apply the following settings:
• Instant restore to Synology Virtual Machine Manager
• Instant restore to VMware (for virtual machines on VMware vSphere 7.0.1)
• Instant restore to Microsoft Hyper-V
• Backup verification

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Active Backup for Business 2.2.0-12070 (2021-06-01)

Compatibility and Installation
1. Updated to be compatible with DSM 7.0.

What’s New
1. Supports backing up and restoring Linux physical servers of the following distributions:
o CentOS: 6.10, 7.8, 8.1
o RHEL: 6.10, 7.8, 8.1
o Ubuntu: 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
o Fedora: 30, 31, 32
o Debian: 8.0 to 10
2. Added support for VMware vSphere 7.0.0.
3. Added support for compression and encryption at the backup destination for personal computers, physical servers, and virtual machines.
4. Supports migrating instantly restored virtual machines on Virtual Machine Manager to VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V.
5. Users can now back up a maximum of 50 devices (personal computers, physical servers, and virtual machines) concurrently. The actual number varies depending on RAM capacity:
o Less than 8 GB: 10
o Between 8 GB and 31 GB: 30
o 32 GB or more: 50
6. Supports customizing pre/post scripts for physical server backups.
7. Supports backing up disks with the virtio_blk driver on Linux physical servers.
8. Supports removing stored data when the storage is deleted.
9. Supports attaching backup reports in PDF format in report emails.
10. Supports deleting reports.
11. Supports automatically checking if the required services on VMware vSphere/Microsoft Hyper-V are properly configured when adding a hypervisor or creating a backup task.
12. Supports skipping duplicated pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys, and swapfiles.sys files when backing up personal computers and physical servers.
13. Scheduled backup tasks for physical servers/personal computers will be canceled when the devices are disconnected for over an hour after tasks start.
14. Displays tasks that have been restored within the last 48 hours in "Restore Status."
15. Supports Instant Restore to Hyper-V or Synology Virtual Machine Manager and Backup Verification for backup tasks with compression or encryption at backup destination enabled.
o Applied models:
 FS-series: FS6400, FS3600, FS3400, FS1018, FS2017
 SA-series: SA3600, SA3400, SA3200D
 21-series: DS1621xs+, DS1621+
 20-series: RS820RP+, RS820+, DS1520+, DS920+, DS720+, DS620slim, DS420+, DS220+
 19-series: RS1619xs+, DS2419+, DS1819+, DS1019+
 18-series: RS3618xs, RS2818RP+, RS2418RP+, RS2418+, DS3018xs, DS1618+, DS918+, DS718+, DS418play, DS218+
 17-series: RS18017xs+, RS4017xs+, RS3617RPxs, RS3617xs+, DS3617xs

Limitations
1. For Microsoft Hyper-V backup tasks, Instant Restore to VMware vSphere isn't available when compression or encryption at backup destinations is enabled.

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Active Backup for Business Agent 2.2.0-2070 (2021-06-01)

Compatibility and Installation
1. Updated to be compatible with DSM 7.0.

What’s New
1. Supports backing up Linux physical servers of the following distributions:
o CentOS: 6.10, 7.8, 8.1
o RHEL: 6.10, 7.8, 8.1
o Ubuntu: 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
o Fedora: 30, 31, 32
o Debian: 8.0 to 10
2. Supports ECC certificates.

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